Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross ...
This book presents the current feminist critique of science and the philosophy of science in such a way that students of the philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find the material accessible and intellectually rigorous. }This book presents the current feminist critique of science and the philosophy of ...
Spanning over nine hundred years, "Eight Women Philosophers" is the first singly-authored work to trace the themes of standard philosophical theorizing and feminist thought across women philosophers in the Western tradition. Jane Duran has crafted a comprehensive overview of eight women philosophers - Hildegard of Bingen, Anne Conway, Mary Astell, ...
New work on women thinkers often makes the point that philosophical conceptual thought is where we find it, examples such as Simone de Beauvoir and the nineteenth century Black American writer Anna Julia Cooper assure us that there is ample room for the development of philosophy in literary works but as yet there has been no single unifying ...
'Her poems are voyages of discovery. Literally. Over and over she writes about the journeys, physical and metaphysical, that are transformative experiences' - Sarah Maguire, "Poetry Review".
Drawing on recent advances in analytic epistemology, feminist scholarship and philosophy of science, the author of this work proposes a feminist theory of knowledge.
Jane Duran's [book] represents a pioneering attempt to integrate epistemology and social science...[She] makes a persuasive and highly interesting case for broadening the scope of epistemology to include sociolinguistics.-James Maffie, California State University, Northridge
"Coastal" is about endings and beginnings. Jane Duran's poems explore that transforming, constantly shifting overlap in what we remember and what we experience now. But this coastal place of the mind is also geographical: it is childhood in New England, adolescence in Chile, it is Algeria today. Themes of losing and finding, releasing and holding ...
Jane Duran's father fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republican army and went into exile after its defeat. This poem-sequence takes as its point of departure her father's silence about the war: 'He lays down his arms. He raises his arms over his head. He will not tell'. In a constant search for 'the breath of the unknown', the poems move ...
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